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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255220103321

Autore

Lee Bernon

Titolo

Marginal(ized) Prospects through Biblical Ritual and Law : Lections from the Threshold / / by Bernon Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319550954

3319550950

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 221 p.)

Collana

Postcolonialism and Religions, , 2946-2320

Disciplina

230.0464

Soggetti

Liberation theology

Bible - Study and teaching

Feminist theology

Religion and sociology

Liberation Theology

Biblical Studies

Feminist Theology

Sociology of Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: A Prologue to Wandering -- 1. Casting the Web: The Moses-God Exchanges on the Passover (Exodus 11:1-13:16) -- 2. Expanding the Web: Numbers 5-6 with a View to Leviticus 21-22 -- 3. Reversing the Trend: Looking Askance at Deuteronomy 22-24 -- 4. Coming Home: Through the Doors of Judges 19 and Exodus 11-12 -- Epilogue: Scenes from Afar.

Sommario/riassunto

This book follows a reader's logic of association through a series of overlapping constructs in biblical prescription of things prized and lofty-holy hair, unblemished beasts, sacred edibles, wholesome wombs, pristine precincts, esteemed ethnicities and, as unlikely as it seems, dismembered members. Thoroughly intersectional in disposition, Bernon Lee uncovers not just the precariousness of the contrived dichotomies through the identity-building sacred texts, but



also the complexities and contentions of a would-be decolonizing hermeneutic bristling with its own tensions and temptations. This volume is an intertextual odyssey through law and ritual from impassioned positions fraught with ambivalence, reticence, and anxiety.